Hello all. It's HUMP day.  How come today does not feel any different than other days?  
I am not sure if that is good or bad.
We had wind chills of -7 degrees this morning. I am sure glad that I went to the park yesterday to take photos of the snow and not today.
But yesterday afternoon I spent some time putting together 15 images to creat this layered composition.
I bought the diffusers that Harold Ross created for what he calls "raking the light".  I have a long way to go before I can produce anything close to his masterpieces but have to remind myself that I think I read that he has been doing this for over 20 years.  He has classes in person and on line, the cost of which made me gulp!  It is more expensive than college tuition, well, at least the tuition that I paid when I attended school.  

I call this, MY DAD'S TOOLS.  (But I think some of them might have belonged to my grandfather first)
Have a good day all.
LORELL

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Good Snowy Morning to you all. Even if you don't have any, I hope you enjoy mine. 
I think after yesterday's 4 inches of snow, I may just make a short trip to the park and see about taking some photos of winter landscapes.  That is one of our challenges for next month's club meeting.  Better do it now, next week I will be looking at beach landscapes.

I took this one yesterday afternoon.
I hope you have a terrific Tuesday.
LORELL

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Good morning all and welcome to another week. A little chilly here but should warm up into the 50's later.

Nothing new here, so I will post an image of a flower, taken well over 40 years ago on (probably) Ektachrome. I don't remember now and too many slides to look through to tell for sure, but most of the old slides were Ektacrome. As you can see, I enjoyed photographing flowers even back in the day.

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Good morning all - hope you are having a nice weekend. Nothing to share this morning, just wanted to pop in and start the daily. I might pull something out of the archives to post in a bit. Enjoyed yesterday's photos though!

Well, it's snowing in Columbia, SC

I'm nearly ready for bed so I thought I'd start your day for you.
These are a joy in a sea of dead grass.
   

Greetings All!
Sorry about being MIA for so long; hadn't been feeling too good for a few weeks and am finally starting to get back to normal.
Easy does it.
We had 3 inches of snow last weekend and I didn't feel well enough to go out and take photos so I have one here from my archive.
And old farmstead not far from here.
We have some possible ice and freezing rain up next so maybe there will be a photo op there.

Good day, folks.

Another from March 2005. This is an Egyptian Goose. It's not native to North America, but a few breeding groups can be found in Southern California. most likely after escaping captivity.

Some geese have the reputation of being rather aggressive; the Egyptian Goose goes beyond this, and seems downright ill-tempered: in my experience they will chase anything from other birds of any size and kind to dogs to people.

But they sure have a distinctive and attractive color pattern.

   

Morning All,
Another old negative. I experimented with slow shutter speeds and movement.

   

Welcome to a new week, everyone.
I hope all had a restful weekend, but that seems like that is about all we are doing for the last two years!  
So, it is Macro Monday and this week's challenge was to post a macro of something and a measuring device so that you can see how big it actually is.  I used my husband's Micrometer to measure the diameter of this 2021 penny.

Since the macro lens as a very shallow DOF, I took 11 shots of the penny, focussing on 11 different points of the composition.  Then I did an easy focus merge of all 11 in Affinity Photo Software and let Affinity do all the work from there.

Have a good day all.
LORELL

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